West Bromwich Albion will play in a 1968 retro kit in the Premier League match against Leicester City on April 11 to honor former striker Jeff Astle who died from a condition caused by regular blows to the head, it was announced Thursday.

The league has granted permission for the club to wear the same white strip with red socks that West Brom wore in the 1968 FA Cup final when Astle's goal beat Everton.

Astle died in 2002, aged 59, from Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy - a progressive degenerative disease commonly associated with boxers and which was once referred to as being "punch drunk."

Albion will wear the kit to mark the launch of the Jeff Astle Foundation, which is set up to raise awareness of brain injuries in sport and offer support to sufferers.